Is it not possible that the Harper years are not the appropriate baseline, that 73K newcomers each quarter was too much *then*?
Leaving that aside, average quarterly inflows in the last six quarters, permanent and non-permanent combined, are lower, in absolute terms, than their average in the Harper years: 67,000 vs 73,000.
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NYT: "She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything: The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving [epilespy] drug and hide the plan from her doctors." is.gd/3UaC1qm ChatGPT encouraged deceptiveness & affirmed 31-yr-old patient's desires.
Well-deserved.
The @KirkCenter has announced that the McLellan Prize for Free Speech will be awarded to influential legal scholar Eugene Volokh! @VolokhC kirkcenter.org/highlights/eu…
Paul Tuns retweeted
SOME NEW THING I wrote for @TheInterim_News about conspiracy theory and mud floods tinyurl.com/mrxuazx3
Today's @Commentary recommends: Cheesecake Factory coconut cream pie and sweet corn tamale cakes.
If it wasn't for the politicized drama surrounding the WNBA, few people would know anything about it; the product on the court is trash.
"Nothing like this happened in WWII," claiming genocide in Gaza. Maybe Hoppe should stick to libertarian philosophy.
Now understand how bad of a candidate @BradBradford must have been to lose to Olivia Chow.
‼️ THIS IS INSANE: Toronto re-elected Olivia Chow by 13 points.
And on her watch:
>Property taxes went up by 18.6% in 3 years
>Homelessness hit about 15K by 2024
More than double 2021
>Shooting deaths rose 27% in 2025
Bradford offered a 2027 tax freeze and 1,000 more officers
Voters chose four more years of the same.
In the last federal election, 95% of ridings went to the Liberals.
Can’t say I’m surprised at the outcome.
GLUTTONS FOR PUNISHMENT.
God doesn't need us to save Him; He saves us.
"We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window…”
- Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump. @atrupar.
I have two, not mutually exclusive theories.
1. Immigrants who got into the country legitimately resent those who get into the country dishonestly or cheaply.
2. Some immigrants bring their ethnic animosities to Canada & don't like other kinds of immigrants.
Not at all surprising.
In my five years as Immigration Minister, we consistently found that all of our challenging reforms* were supported by immigrants more than people born in Canada.
* Reforms like:
- Eliminating a backlog of 700,000 PR applications
- raising the bar for selection under the points grid, including for English / French language proficiency
- overhauling the asylum system that reduced new claims by 80%
- imposing visas on major source countries for asylum claims;
- imposing a waiting period before foreign sponsored spouses could obtain PR to crack down on marriage fraud
- raising the bar to obtain citizenship with much more robust language and knowledge tests based on our Discover Canada citizenship guide, and adding a year to the residency requirement;
- revoking citizenship from thousands of people who had obtained it fraudulently;
- stopping applications for the parents & grandparents sponsorship program;
- ending the live in caregiver program;
- ending the widely abused Investor Immigrant Program;
- overhauling the Temporary Foreign Worker Program that reduced intake of low skilled TFWs by 85%;
- removing federal health benefits from rejected asylum claimants;
- increasing resources for CBSA to increase & accelerate deportations, etc..
- reforming the Multiculturalism Program to focus on integration & civic literacy rather than divisive critical race theory;
Many of these reforms elicited the usual charges of racism from the left, and many were opposed by the business community as being too restrictive. But consistently we saw super majority support amongst new Canadians for these and other tough measures.
I'm on Team Rubio in 2028. He represents the best opportunity for the Republicans to regain sanity on trade, foreign policy, protecting the unborn, and supporting families.
Despite some mistakes, I’ve never given up on Rubio and it seems @Reinsch84 hasn’t either. He’s very talented. Also very ambitious and that has led him down a few blind alleys. But all things considered, he’s come through the right’s turbulent decade in surprisingly good shape.
And yet we have reliably been told for 50 years that if only women led all countries we’d have world peace.
Wow. FIRE data shows male students are more tolerant of ideological enemies than female students are of ideological allies. Read that again and then click the link.
expression.fire.org/p/male-s…
There is so much wrong with this ad that it is hardly worth rebutting but it must be noted that the conclusion -- "Mike Rogers is for ... ahem ... they/them" -- means he Rogers for the Jews. RebellionPac resorted to flat-out Jew-baiting in support of Abdul El-Sayed.
New @RebellionPac ad dropping in Michigan. We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel “unconditionally,” but never made that promise to you.
I am not at all surprised. Disney has pivoted to catering to perpetual children who occasionally cosplay as adults.
I would vote for Ben Roethlisberger, Rob Gronkowski, Antonio Brown, Adrian Peterson & Richard Sherman. Brown deserves first-ballot enshrinement but I doubt he ever gets a gold jacket. It is so hard to measure center success but Alex Mack probably deserves quick induction, too.
So how many of these guys do you think will be voted in for the first try into Canton? @NFL @ProFootballHOF
